COVER STORY

The Worsening Shortage of Lab Staff
What’s Being Done to Turn it Around?
By Phil Kibak

With the need for medical technologists predicted to grow and more reaching retirement age, labs can expect continued shortages until efforts to recruit young people to the profession take hold.  

Stuck in the Middleware
Labs Look for Answers as New Consortium Aims to Untangle the Mess
By Deborah Levenson

A new consortium takes on middleware headaches with a forthcoming standard that aims to improve connectivity.

SERIES ARTICLE

Toxic Metals
Why Hair Analysis Deserves Another Look
By Erlo Roth, MD and David W. Quig, PhD

When used in conjunction with patient symptoms and other laboratory tests, elemental analysis of hair is a reasonably accurate and precise technology that can determine long-term exposure to various toxic elements.

NEWS BRIEF

Report Details Factors in Rising CKD Rates 

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More on MRSA Testing 

Some institutions are now new molecular tests for MRSA to screen all patients, but two recent studies have come to different conclusions about this universal screening strategy.

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